Former Kings Cross underworld figure and convicted drug dealer Bill Bayeh is to be released on parole. Russell Townsend, described in Royal Commission evidence as an alleged drug dealer, is a friend and gym partner. But when he's bad he's better!'. Hakim was used by the Gaming Squad to sign warrants for almost every raid it conducted from 1971 to 1979. Ran the Cosmopolitan coffee lounge in Darlinghurst Road, as well as an amusement parlour, strip club and snooker room. Closed for two months after a minor liquor licensing violation, John took the opportunity to put a fresh face on the club. MAIN SOURCE: Blood Money by Clive Small and Tom Gilling; The Prince and the Premier by David Hickie. This had hardly ever happened before there was an unwritten law among Sydneys criminals that family was to be kept out of business disputes. Although wealthy, good looking and self-assured, John is, in many ways, an ineligible bachelor. You just feel it. Whilst Fowler denies he is involved in corruption, he is shown covert video footage of him accepting a bribe. Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Aldermanic Board President Megan Green said traffic education and enforcement would be a priority for the next session of the Board when new members are seated after the April elections. "It is to be inferred that [Mr Domican] had been retained by Louis Bayeh to intimidate [Ibrahim] in order to protect Mr Bayeh's share of the protection market in Kings Cross," documents filed by lawyers for Mr Ibrahim claim. It wasnt for me. Bill has 1 job listed on their profile. 2023, Charter Communications, all rights reserved. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Nick Moir Mr Ibrahim also alleges Mr Domican opened his coat to display his gun while telling associates he would "take care" of a rival drug dealer on a Saturday night in 1993. All around the world, first and second generation immigrants often form a higher proportion of criminals than of the general population. But she then stopped and turned to confront him about comments hed made some weeks earlier, sparking an argument that was recorded on her phone. While still in the force he met underworld figure Louis Bayeh, his brother Bill, a young John Ibrahim and his older sibling Sam - a 'fearless criminal'. FORMER Kings Cross underworld identity Bill Bayeh has walked out of Sydney's Silverwater jail after serving 15 years for drug trafficking. S03:E06 - Women in Uniform. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply commercial quantities of cocaine and heroin in 1995 and 1996. This will not be work that we can complete overnight. However, his paranoia is justified as he discovers the Commission has a lot of incriminating evidence against him. Cleverly avoiding direct involvement in violence himself, Bayeh hired a number of standover men, including Karam, a former Lebanese commando, and a group of Tongan martial arts experts to intimidate the other dealers in the Cross into leaving or agreeing to be on Bayeh's payroll. In Kings Cross because there were so many people there was a bigger majority. Not all of the target areas will receive funding, Board of Public Service President Rich Bradley said, adding that work will be prioritized on available funding. Erin Molan defamation claim back in court, Bombshell for MP accused of child sex abuse. Daily Mail Australia is appealing after a court ruled the online publication had defamed Erin Molan in an article and tweets which falsely portrayed her as racist. Staunton had been secretly recorded handing money to the corrupt cop Trevor Haken on behalf of Bayeh and spent the next 11 and a half months in prison. The expansion of the Bayeh drug empire led to a push to remove small drug dealers off the streets. SYDNEY nightclub owner John Ibrahim was very young when he gave this first revealing interview. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s. The 1990s saw the rise of many other powerful and violent Lebanese figures, including Louis Bayehs brother Bill. Louis Bayeh was himself sentenced in 1997 to four years jail for perverting the course of justice. However, Louis Bayeh uses his own police contacts to successfully oppose bail for the duo, causing Kassab to look like a liar. 'I'm a happy man,' the grandfather-of-four says. I am just trying to get my life back., Kings Cross underworld identity previously known as the King of the Cross. A telescope is trained on the water. The 55-year-old emerged with a tuft of white hair at the front of an otherwise black head of hair and was wearing a black hooded top and jeans as he walked through the gates at 9.14am (AEST) today. In order to stake his claim to power in King's Cross, Danny "DK" Karam hires a group of young thugs. Bayeh also paid off a number of corrupt Kings Cross detectives, including the former detective Trevor Haken, who later rolled over and gave evidence in the Wood Royal Commission. Premier vows to raise standards of states pollies, Liberals used Daley video to their advantage. I want to be left alone. I dont think anyone expected he, would be involved in a business here. The Kings Cross detectives get into a confrontation with some thugs and illegally rough them up. Some nights John goes fishing off the rocks. Upon his release Staunton was deportedand made his way to London. The employees would be responsible for any charges the police laid. Theyre more important than money, John confides. John moved out of the Parramatta home he shared with his mother, his brothers and his sisters four years ago. Never speak to me on the street. 02:50 GMT 23 Jul 2019. In seeming retaliation, Johns attitude on the witness stand remained one degree short of insolence. Staunton had witnessed police corruption since his earliest days on the force and it was internal treachery which brought his career undone one night in 1987. You cant not be there and see whats going on. He died in 2005, and over 400 people attended his funeral at Redfern. Speaking outside the hearing, one of Bayeh's other brothers said he was pleased at the result. A major player in last year's Underbelly TV series, Bill Bayeh was jailed for dealing heroin and cocaine from the once-notorious Cosmopolitan Cafe in Kings Cross. Bayeh was a major player in the Kings Cross drugs scene during the 1990s. The Missouri House already passed a similar bill. Staunton was born in the back of a taxi on London's Fulham Palace Road in 1958 and moved to Australia with his Irish Catholic family when he was seven. Kim Hollingsworth continues to risk her life to expose Eddie Gould's corruption. Not long afterwards John dropped out of school. 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'I just wanted to get straight into it. I have one drink and Im all over the place. He is vehement when he says he does not deal drugs. We have already seen with Robert Trimbole an example of how the Italian mafia came to Australia. Staunton was first stationed at inner-city Redfern where he witnessed policing practices which quickly made him question his choice of employment. The lounge room, covered in thick white carpet, is clean but untidy, giving the impression of an archetypal boys house. The legislation authorizes more than $40 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for traffic calming and street redesign. Id like to think (Im a good judge of character) but then everybody thinks they know something about something. After almost a decade working in Kings Cross, the startling revelations of graft, corruption, drug dealing and prostitution are like office gossip to John. There is not much we can do if he is running a legal business, said a police source. Ibrahim and Staunton saw some 'wonderful tennis' and even enjoyed strawberries and cream. In the TAB John is asking around after his friend when he gestures to a tall skinny man and says quietly: The worst thing you can be in the Cross is a KX (a protected Commission witness) because everyone knows who you are.. When Bill's business suffers as a result, tensions rise between Bill and his brother, Louis Bayeh. 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Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. Called to give evidence about his relationship with police and criminals including Bayeh, Staunton refused to speak and was jailed for contempt. Those who have crossed him no doubt have a different story to tell. In 1999 Bayeh was the subject of an attempted assassination outside a restaurant in Narwee. John has only been to his parents country of birth, Lebanon, once. Bill Bayeh leaving the Wood Royal Commission after his arrest for supplying drugs.Credit:Nick Moir. Danny Karam, a nightclub bouncer who later became one of Bayeh's standover men, remembered that Bayeh was so broke in 1991 he was forced to ask him for $50. Egan and Haken organise a deal with Kassab that if Shaka and Norm turn themselves in at the Bankstown Police Station, they will get off lightly. In 1998, after disposing of Danny Karam, drug dealer Michael Kanaan devises a plan to murder John Ibrahim and his bodyguard, Kiwi Steve, in order to divert attention. That was another episode when we said `Arent you glad to be an Australian?, Then we came home and the Royal Commission had just started.. It's not hard to understand why. Well before his death, though, he had handed on the flame to another criminal of Lebanese descent, Louis Bayeh. His only regret is the time he spent away from his two sons, Danial and Timothy. I came in there and cut it all out. A cafe lifestyle by day and at night, entry into any Sydney club he chooses to visit. Its all who you know. We flew from Amsterdam straight to Lebanon. It didnt end well. I just want to make a living like everybody else, said Bayeh. 'But the morals that I have, I will not sell or give up on. They are proof of a violent youth but John says simply: Theyre my scars. As a member of the TRG he sustained permanent injury during a pitched battle with louts during the so-called Bathurst Riots at the 1985 Motorcycle Grand Prix. I thought "I'm going to save the world - this is great - I can be a superhero here".'. He describes winning almost $100,000 at Randwick one day and how he and Bill Bayeh turned over millions of dollars a year with a bookmaker. We used to do taekwondo together. Then the tapes and video footage played in the Wood Royal Commission effectively put Bayeh away. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. It's being paid for with the American Rescue Plan Fund. Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. It turned out McPherson already had a direct relationship with the club, and sent a group of men to throw the new machines into the street. Bayeh was given a minimum sentence of 15 years in jail for cocaine and heroin trafficking. With help from drug king Bill Bayeh and his crew, Det. Bayeh's method was simple. Barrister Sue Chrysanthou, acting for Mr Domican, queried how allegations of branch stacking were relevant to the imputations raised before the court. ''It is not every day the Serious Offenders Review Council recommends that the parole authority consider the release of a serious offender at the first eligible date,'' he said. Staunton still works in security, hospitality and logistics and as a bodyguard to A-list celebrities. Violence increased partly because of the nature of the drug trade, and partly because the degree of stability once provided in the underworld by the involvement of corrupt police largely disappeared. He is also talking about the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service and the heavy toll it has exacted from Sydneys red light district. Anything else was probably a waste of time. The balcony gives way to a vista encompassing Sydney Heads and a massive expanse of deep blue ocean. It cost me $70,000 to buy 20 per cent. THE former wife of flamboyant doctor Geoffrey Edelsten had an epic run-in with a notorious Kings Cross identity. Another hobby is jetskiing. A local bum holds the door open when he sees John, who has been known to sling him a $50 note. And sorry for the victims Ive caused trouble to.. Under the bond for the Ms Nesbitt incident, Bayeh must continue psychological treatment for a year, Magistrate Graeme Curran told Downing Centre Local Court, noting both matters were at the lower end of seriousness. Then you go home, have a shower and sleep very well.. Please try again later. You need a vibrator up your arse, Bayeh responded. An angry Kim Hollingsworth returns to Sydney from Adelaide, intending on suing the NSW Police. On his first night at Long Bay jail Staunton, who was considered at risk due to his years as a policeman, was moved from his original cell. Bill Bayeh was in 1996 sentenced to 15 years jail for heroin and cocaine dealing. ELECTION WRAP. His defence claims that, in about 1997, following Bill Bayeh's arrest on drug charges, for which he was ultimately jailed for 15 years, Louis Bayeh continued to take payments for "protecting" strip clubs and other businesses in the area. One of his techniques was quite unusual. Like a prince in plain clothes John, 25, is slouched in a chair at a Victoria Rd cafe talking to three friends about his club, The Tunnel, which is undergoing renovations. Later John confides: All these people, weve been together since we had nothing. Our contributors include the great investigators Bob Bottom and Al McCoy, and the wonderfully insightful Sydney artist Michael Fitzjames. At a nearby table comedian Vince Sorrenti is shouting to a group of workmen performing noisy roadwork. He is based in London and expects to live until he his 100. , updated With a combination of manipulation, violence and a crude but highly effective business strategy, Bayeh developed a 24-hour-a-day operation that effectively monopolised the Kings Cross drugs market in the early '90s, feeding the red-light district's seemingly insatiable appetite for cocaine and heroin. No one really knew that I didnt know what I was doing, except me.. View Bill Bayeh's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Impressed by Ibrahim, Freeman offers him a job as a bouncer. Bill and Louis Bayeh fight off threats to their drug dealing empire. King's Cross detectives Graham "Chook" Fowler and Neville "Scully" Scullion are called to testify to the Wood Royal Commission. But the NSW Corrective Services Commissioner still argued against Bayeh's release yesterday. This resulted in the outbreak of a minor ''gang war'', culminating in the 1993 shooting of his brother Louis Bayeh by a rival dealer. FORMER Kings Cross identity Bill Bayeh has been given a bond for making a threat involving a sex toy to Geoffrey Edelstens ex-wife during an ugly verbal spat recorded on a smart phone. Ive got the best education money could buy. Police unions have rallied around Missouri Senate Bill 78, which would reinstate a Civil War-era system of state oversight. It typifies Johns blithe attitude to life. Pan Macmillan's defence claims it could also be inferred Mr Domican was a violent criminal from a 2002 conviction in Western Australia after he pleaded guilty to threatening to break the neck of a police officer. Asked if his brother would be able to stay out of trouble, he said ''of course''. Trevor Haken's alcoholism takes a toll on his marriage and his ability to manage police corruption. Bill Bayeh has bought a share in iconic strip joint Love Machine, with the refurbished venue set to open again later this month It's a remarkable return to form for the Golden Mile, now run by Bayeh's former driver John Ibrahim. He received compensation for his injuries but will not say how much, just that it wasnt a lot. Kim Hollingsworth's police friend, Sergeant Dave, abandons her after she "dobs in" to Internal Affairs. He paid police to protect at least 24 gaming clubs and often entertained police officers. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Narrowly escaping a shooting in Bayeh's gaming room, John receives some advice from George Freeman. John was 19 when he became part-owner of the Tunnel but he had already armed himself with a formidable collection of contacts and friends. Staunton was again brought unstuck by an undercover cop and was arrested in January 1997 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. John lives here with the Tunnels restaurant manager, who was first employed as a kitchen hand at the club after moving from China to Australia six years ago. Today the War on Drugs continues to affect many lives in ways ranging from the trivial to the profound. Thats the business were in. If you dont own a business there (Kings Cross) you could not understand how much its affected it, he says. Well, youre the new lifeblood of the drug industry in Kings Cross, arent you? Mr Agius asked John after the tape was played. Convicted cocaine dealer Bill Bayeh and his brother Louie are old friends of the family. It would allow the governor to appoint "a special . We were supposed to be there a week but we couldnt stand it so we left after three days. If you're a friend of mine you're there forever.'. 'I'm not running from anything I've done. Bill Bayeh was jailed for 15 years for drug trafficking in the 1990s.Nick Moir The court heard Mr Domican accompanied Mr Bayeh, who has since served 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, around the area and "regularly stood outside" the premises where Bayeh's business dealings took place. By When John changes into a sports singlet for the gym he reveals a worn band which he wears around the top of his arm. Believe it or not I did very well at school but it just wasnt for me. I think this place is like every other place, I dont see any difference., Of his time in prison, he said: I wasnt treated very human 15 years in jail. He is passionate in his philosophy that nothing comes easy. Taken into custody in 1996 on leaving the witness box at the Wood royal commission into police corruption. In 1988 they were all to be found on the Golden Mile. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. 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